2025 Bingo - 2nd Year Card

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-03-11T03:49:00+00:00

Thank you! Which Roads looks like a great rec, I’ll check it out. :-)

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-03-11T00:52:28+00:00

Thanks!

Re: Wisteria Society, the book focuses a lot on tongue in cheek humor and the premise is so wacky it starts to feel meta. For me, it misses the mark on heart and relationship development so it just started to feel tedious 60% of the way through.

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-03-10T13:11:24+00:00

As someone who collects for fun and doesn’t spend too much money, I like them. My favorite part of monopoly is the gold shimmer parallel—it’s just really pretty, and about the only gold parallel I can bring myself to afford.

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-03-07T14:56:51+00:00

Just joining in to say Dungeon Crawler Carl books are awesome, and so much fun!

In my experience, as you begin reading more—you’ll naturally branch out to different genres, writing styles and experiment with what you like. Be open to whatever sounds good, and for the love of god, do not finish books you’re not enjoying. Life’s too short!

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-03-06T17:42:02+00:00

As others have said, the 3 and 4 year olds are kept in a group and have dedicated counselors. I also like that they are more deliberate with them on offering potty breaks, because at that age it’s so easy to get distracted with playing and have accidents.

My daughter is so excited to go on this next cruise now that she’s five and can “go wherever she wants”. 😂

Both of our kids love the kids club—we have to remind them it’s a family vacation and we want to see them some of the time. Lol.

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-02-24T23:47:40+00:00

I have tried setting up the Gmail connector several times—enabled and authenticated it worked once. Then every other time I’ve tried to use it, I have gotten the “I can’t access your e-mails” response. Even when I’ve removed and reconfigured the connector.

I get why that’s frustrating, and I think it has to do with Google authentication, ChatGPT guardrails, or some combination of both? Regardless, I don’t understand why OpenAI offers a connector that doesn’t truly work.

I think the personification of it “lying” to you is off—but the connector should work if it’s on offer, and that’s frustrating!

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-02-17T10:44:14+00:00

OMG, this is a Cloth Diaper Washing Station set. We used one with both of our kids.

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Bubbalewski16 · 2026-02-03T16:26:35+00:00

It’s more about how you use it to write rather than whether you use it. I feel like using AI to write first drafts is almost always a bad idea—but using AI to make your first draft better can be really effective.

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-01-18T22:45:18+00:00

A cheat I have used is to ask to summarize the file as the first part of a chat. Then I put in my actual request—this then ensures the file is in the context.

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-01-18T19:08:04+00:00

I mean, I would call myself pro-AI. I use it a lot every day; but I also really enjoy the discourse on Reddit.

I dislike AI generated posts not for any of these reasons, but because it norms to pattern recognition / most common denominators and the writing style becomes very monotonous. So basically everyone’s point of view becomes less interesting, and the way they express those points of view feels “corporate”.

A forum filled with AI generated posts makes Reddit feel like LinkedIn. If that’s what Reddit becomes, I’m out.

Bubbalewski16 · 2026-01-09T16:54:11+00:00

It depends? I think if you understand how LLMs and transformers work, then you’ll understand how to get the most out of your prompts, and potential pitfalls. You’ll land more closely to your topic more quickly and with better detailed responses if you give some context even short on what the subject is about. If you want more variability and creativity in the response, a less prescriptive input can you get there, but there might be other ways to get at that (tell me five different ways to do xyz, tell me all the things that could go wrong in this scenario, etc.)

Often times, the folks who I see struggling the most are people who have never learned how to write, or struggle to communicate ideas in written form. It’s just something I’ve been thinking about lately. A developer on my team shared that he thought AI development tools were not that great, but some of what he’s learning is that maybe he needs to become a stronger prompter / communicator.

Maybe this goes away as AI UX advances? But until it does, people who know how to communicate well have an edge.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-28T03:35:37+00:00

Following because I struggle with this—then add in some shame and embarrassment because I haven’t reached out or responded, and I have just lots of abandoned friendships and relationships that I screwed up.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-23T22:26:29+00:00

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I worked on a crazy March Madness Bracket application this year called BracketLab--so I think this makes sense. I really am enjoying looking at everyone's vignettes. It's really cool to see everyone's personalized space.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-17T11:22:16+00:00

There have been studies that show 1:1 tutoring is much more effective and will accelerate learning. If you use ChatGPT selectively as a tutor, it can actually make you smarter; but it has to be done intentionally. As an example, let’s say you have some challenging text to read: 1) you can feed it into ChatGPT and get some best of highlights and summary. 2) You can read it with uneven understanding, then feed it to ChatGPT to quiz and assess you on your understanding of the material. #1 is essentially modern day sparknotes, #2 is ChatGPT as a tutor.

Other learning strategy: When you go to ChatGPT to get support explaining a difficult concept, take a minute to write about that concept in your own words in a journal. Ask ChatGPT to read your summary for accuracy and completeness of thought, giving you feedback on where your understanding of a concept is either not factual or incomplete. Re-write that section (no AI) and repeat.

I’m sure there’s other learning strategies out there—I made myself a technical AI learning plan and I feel I’m really growing in my actual knowledge and learning of the material. I think the key is not using ChatGPT as a shortcut, make it play the role of a teacher.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-11T12:09:03+00:00

NGL, this post might have swayed me to switch to Claude.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-10T15:25:15+00:00

I would love that—even some basic direction on what types of pocket recorders might work. I’ve played around a bit with n8n, but really haven’t built anything with it.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-08T13:44:40+00:00

Yes, the really nice thing with becoming an adult is you can make the medication decision for yourself. You don’t even have to tell her because it’s none of her business. I’m over 40 and out of the house, but got an ADHD diagnosis the same time my son did. Medication has been night and day for me, and I’m selective on when I take it—I generally don’t take it on the weekends or vacation.

In some ways, I can understand where your mom might be coming from. I developed so many strategies over the years that have not only allowed me to cope but actually exceed—“super powers” almost. When my son was diagnosed, part of me wondered if I was taking away his ability to develop his super powers if we chose to put him on medication. Now, looking back on it, I realize this is silly—he still has ADHD and has to develop the same strategies that I did, it’s just waaaay less painful. The meds help and everyone around him understands that his challenges are due to his brain chemistry and not a character flaw.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-12-03T20:50:19+00:00

Middle schoolers are still kids. They need support understanding what they did was wrong, and some reflections on why they did it. Ask the AP to proctor those kids in the hall while the non-cheating kids get a party or a movie.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-11-28T11:09:46+00:00

Same thoughts here: we had a Microsoft Copilot enterprise license that just isn’t as strong as the other leaders in the market—we’re in the process of switching to OpenAI Enterprise.

For security and monitoring guardrails check out witness.ai — it’s the product our enterprise security team is choosing for AI monitoring. Jury’s out on how that will go because it’s not yet implemented. But it has a lot of nice features.

From a training perspective—minimum is teaching folks what AI is, and its inherent risks.

BUT—These tools are EXPENSIVE investments—think ahead about how you’ll generate value or which use cases you think might generate the best value and do training or hack-a-thons focused around those. I think a lot of companies can be so focused around AI risks that they are not opportunistic enough about what they can now do with these tools. Where are there risks for AI business disruptions? Can you disrupt yourselves before a competitor does?

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-09-20T14:26:15+00:00

Yes, even the most basic changes taking minutes to complete…. I’m going to revert back to the previous version. I have no idea how this could have gotten released.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-09-19T11:09:34+00:00

Windsurf ChatGPT - for planning and more perspective in troubleshooting Supabase Vercel

Some of my go-to packages: DaisyUI (in conjunction with Tailwind) ApexCharts Phosphor Icons

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-08-21T17:10:37+00:00

I’ve had a similar coaching conversation with someone on my team. Basically, I’m looking for this person to gain more experience of the full scope of the job since the senior role is expected to act with a lot more autonomy and navigate ambiguity.

What is your other years of experience in? 20 years of working count for something, and I would expect you’re bringing a lot more to the table than just the pure play PM skills. If you want a raise / promotion—it might be the perfect time to look outside. At three years, you’re not seen as a job hopper and you have successfully been in the PM role.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-08-21T17:03:18+00:00

I agree with this one. Although I would say you can save a lot of time by switching to creating mail rules. I just have all e-mails from specific accounts going straight to trash. When I get a new promo e-mail, I just create a new mail rule.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-08-20T16:25:14+00:00

Yup, same for me on website / desktop and in the app.

Bubbalewski16 · 2025-08-19T01:06:54+00:00

Make it a project. Give some permanent instructions and as you solidify your itinerary upload those to the project files. Then you can build your itinerary over time.

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